Practical skills, learnings and best practices on how to launch and run a high-impact social venture

Inspiration from successful social entrepreneurs

Connections to local partners and individuals supporting startup social entrepreneurs

A community of locally-based peers

About UnLtd USA | startup + drive

UnLtd USA | startup + drive is a monthlong series of popup bootcamps for early stage social entrepreneurs coming to 8 cities across the US this September. The founder of UnLtd USA, along with the two co-founders of UnLtd India and a few other entrepreneurs will be traveling from coast to coast to offer talks, workshops, one-on-one clinics and peer learning sessions – all of it aimed at helping you jumpstart your potential as a leader to start up and drive change and understanding how UnLtd USA can best serve the social startups of the country.

About UnLtd USA

At UnLtd USA we find, fund and support early stage social entrepreneurs. By engaging before almost all others and providing customized, ongoing support on site, we jumpstart the work of these individuals to transform visions of change into a roadmaps for launch and scale. We believe in investing directly in individuals to launch their potential as change makers—accelerating their progress, developing them as leaders and preparing their fledgling organizations for further investment and scale.

GUEST SPEAKERS AND MENTORS

Richard Alderson

Richard Alderson starts and invests in social ventures. He is the co-founder of UnLtd India, an incubator for social entrepreneurs in India; Journeys for Change, a social enterprise taking leaders to learn from the people changing the world; and Careershifters, which helps people find and start doing work they love. He's currently launching Impact DNA, a set of online tools to help social entrepreneurs and their teams make more impact in the world.

After graduation, Derek Snook spent four months teaching at a school for orphans in a fishing village of Kenya. Upon his return, Derek decided to move into a transitional housing facility for the homeless in downtown Charleston. Through living there he noticed that most of the men worked day labor, thus Derek decided to work day labor himself. He saw that while many workers simply wanted to get their wages for the night, others were sincerely trying to get ahead in life. Together with a friend, Derek began researching the world of temporary labor and various forms of social enterprises. Nearly 18 months after the idea was first born, Derek opened the first IES Labor Services office, placing three workers a day with the City of Charleston. Today, IES Labor Services places more than 50 workers on a daily basis, and has added more than $100,000 to workers’ wages through the Hope Fund – that’s $100,000 more than those workers would make at another agency. Derek firmly believes that all anybody can ask of you is to live the story written for you as best as you are able, and to be honest about it. He embraces all that IES Labor Services represents because of the stories it tells and is proud to see his vision come to fruition.

RESIDENT MENTORS

Zoe Schlag

Zoe Schlag is the founder of UnLtd USA. Her own journey as a social entrepreneur was sparked by her work at UnLtd India, where she currently serves as a coach and mentor to startup social entrepreneurs. After experiencing the energy, passion and incredible results of working with social entrepreneurs at the earliest stages, Zoe was inspired to bring the UnLtd approach to incubation support to the United States. Zoe loves mountains, traveling and all delicious foods.

Pooja Warier

Pooja Warier is the co-founder and director of UnLtd India, Journeys for Change and Bombay Connect. She has launched three ventures in the space of 6 years and thrives on start-ups, traveling and dancing. Pooja was recently nominated as a 2013 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Hrag Richard Toutikian

Hrag exchanged his suites and office nearly a year ago for board shorts and beaches. Throughout this time he traveled around SE Asia, trained Muay Thai in Thailand and tried to co-found the first frozen yogurt business in Phuket. During his days of suits and offices, he was working with Mubadala, the investment arm of the Government of Abu Dhabi, where he started up various companies in the financial and defense service sectors. Prior to that Hrag worked with Ernst and Young as an external auditor. He is a big time foodie and an advent cook (yes, he loves his tummy).

When & Where

4.0 Schools
643 Magazine Street
#206 New Orleans,
LA 70130

Sunday, September 15, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CDT)

Organizer

UnLtd USA | startup + drive and 4.0 Schools

UnLtd USA | startup + drive is a monthlong series of popup bootcamps for early stage social entrepreneurs coming to 8 cities across the US this September. The founder of UnLtd USA, along with the two co-founders of UnLtd India and a few other entrepreneurs will be traveling from coast to coast to offer talks, workshops, one-on-one clinics and peer learning sessions – all of it aimed at helping you jumpstart your potential as a leader to start up and drive change and understanding how UnLtd USA can best serve the social startups of the country.

4.0 Schools is a community of curious people committed to solving the toughest problems in education. 4.0 Schools is transforming K-12 public education in the Southeast United States by cultivating talent, teaching problem-solving, and equipping teams of leaders to launch amazing schools and reform tools.